attributive

Grammar. of or relating to an adjective or noun that is directly adjacent to, in English usually preceding, the noun it modifies, without any intervening linking verb, as the adjective sunny in a sunny day or the noun television in a television screen.

attributive

/əˈtrɪbjʊtɪv/

adjective

1.

relating to an attribute

2.

(grammar) (of an adjective or adjectival phrase) modifying a noun and constituting part of the same noun phrase, in English normally preceding the noun, as black in Fido is a black dog (as opposed to Fido is black) Compare predicative

3.

(philosophy) relative to an understood domain, as small in that elephant is small